Supplemental Lighting in the Chicken Coop | The Prairie Homestead

Sand is the answer to an obsessive person’s dreams. Close your eyes and imagine: Beautifully manicured chicken feet (free of poo), zen garden furrows in the ground, everything staying in its place instead of blowing around whenever a wing is flapped. Imagine walking in and smelling… nothing. Sand in the coop, my dear readers, is the answer.

Sand in Chicken Coop

Sand is the answer to an obsessive person’s dreams. Close your eyes and imagine: Beautifully manicured chicken feet (free of poo), zen garden furrows in the ground, everything staying in its place instead of blowing around whenever a wing is flapped. Imagine walking in and smelling… nothing. Sand in the coop, my dear readers, is the answer.

made in Canada - Egg carton; also known as an egg box in British English. The egg carton was invented in 1911 by newspaper editor Joseph Coyle of Smithers, British Columbia, Canada, to solve a dispute between a local farmer and hotel owner in Aldermere, near present day Telkwa, in British Columbia, over the farmer's eggs often being delivered broken.

Does how you were raised factor into how you store your eggs?

How to Get Your Chickens to Roost Up - More than anything else we teach our birds from an early age to follow us and come when we call. Teaching your chickens to return to the coop each night is your biggest obstacle to keeping your birds safe. #raisingchickens

Butchering Chickens 101 #Homesteading & #Survival

How to butcher chickens humanely. http://www.attainable-sustainable.net/butchering-chickens/

It may not be the BEST farm task, but when it needs to be done, these tips will come in handy. http://www.attainable-sustainable.net/butchering-chickens/ the last comment the vegan made I totally agree.

Butchering Chickens 101 #Homesteading & #Survival

How to butcher chickens humanely. http://www.attainable-sustainable.net/butchering-chickens/

It may not be the BEST farm task, but when it needs to be done, these tips will come in handy. http://www.attainable-sustainable.net/butchering-chickens/ the last comment the vegan made I totally agree.

How to Train Chickens to be Picked Up, Come when Called - The Homestead Survival Homesteading Animals [practicing! two chicks showed up in my yard three weeks ago and they follow me around like I'm their mama. ha jh]